Category: Local

The city’s grand list is the value of all of its taxable properties. Its growth or decline directly impacts the city’s tax rate. Values can rise in any year with the addition of new development. Values shift more dramatically up or down during revaluation years in which the city’s assessing office leads efforts to update …

WOLCOTT – Tickets are on sale for the Wolcott Chamber of Commerce’s ninth annual awards banquet April 5 at Mahan’s Lakeview Fine Catering. The event begins at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour, followed by dinner and an awards presentation. Tickets can be purchased at www.wolcottchamberofcommerce.com. This year’s winner of the Brian P. Borghesi Distinguished …

CHESHIRE – Hundreds of vehicles honked their horns as they drove past the town’s Parks and Recreation Department Saturday in support of the Cheshire Cornerstone Church-sponsored Easter flower sale, which raises money to help the homeless in Waterbury. Resident and church member Shelley Keegan and other volunteers sold flowers in front of the center on …

WATERBURY – As state aid to the city drops by millions, local officials are crediting efforts to encourage business growth with helping keep the real estate tax rate flat. “We’re very fortunate in that we are looking at in the past five years a little over $15 million in additional tax revenue generated in the …

WATERBURY – On April 8 dozens of young people, ages 5 to 18, will walk down a red carpet at the Hopkins Street Center, and all of them will have fresh new haircuts they received that day from city barbers and stylists. That cast is part of Zion Baptist Church’s second-ever “Look Good! Feel Good!” …

TORRINGTON – Bags, boxes and cans piled up along one wall of the KidsPlay Children’s Museum on Saturday, the last day of a monthlong food drive to benefit Friends In Service to Humanity, a local food pantry and homeless shelter. This was the second food drive KidsPlay has held, according to operations manager Bethany Frasco, …

WINSTED – The school board that oversees the town’s two elementary schools is soliciting candidates who would fill a recently created vacancy on the nine-member panel. Republican Liz O’Dowd officially submitted her letter of resignation to the town clerk on March 26. She stated in her letter that she now has to spend a lot …

CANAAN – Strong sense of community was what attracted Alicia Roy to Canaan. Now she will be taking over the principalship of North Canaan Elementary School when longtime Principal Rosemary Keilty retires at the end of June. Roy is finishing out her tenure as superintendent of the New Fairfield school system, where she also served …